10 Abandoned Cities You Wouldn’t Want to Visit Alone (Photos)

Watching fancy reenactments on the History Channel is fun and all, but it’s hard not to fantasize about traveling back in time and walking those cobblestone streets, peeking into open doorways, and seeing how people lived in another time. In some towns across the world, this wish to see life in a bygone era can be granted. Often due to unfortunate economic or historical circumstances, these cities were abandoned and preserved in their final lived-in state. The notorious Ukrainian town of Pripyat, where the workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant lived, and the volcano-encrusted Pompeii are the famous examples, but here is a list of some lesser-known places frozen in time.